Coming to a close

The holidays are going to end soon, and I still haven't done what I've set out to accomplish. Sorry to the people who I pissed off yesterday, because I was frustrated trying to learn how to speak with a filipino accent. Also, apologies to anyone whom I may have offended in the last year, especially anyone in our class, we're all good friends, right?

Sadly I'm still only on my first series on the re-watch list. Right now I'm on episode 4 of 'Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu', and I doubt I can watch all my 4 anime series (Kanon, CLANNAD, SHnY, Lucky Star) by Friday, since CLANNAD, Kanon and Lucky Star come to a total of about 24 hours of watching. That is intense, yo. And I still have other stuff I want to do.

But I already covered a bit of Kanon, since I already watched the Mai arc just to remind myself a bit.

Anyway, damn, because of christmas, CLANNAD After Story 13's subs have been delayed. Even now, I still wait for the episode to be posted up on the eclipse website so that I can torrent and seed later.

I can't play DotA unless you guys don't mind me dcing very often (it tends to happen at the most important times) so.

...Damn my blogging skills have really diminished.

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Another template skin

I find the template skins to have a certain amount of finesse that pyzam doesn't have. Mostly because theirs is a simple 2 or 3 brushes together with the template skin base. Anyway, I changed the skin to, well, this, since the colour is nice and kind of looks like parchment paper in some bizarre way. I remade a new header too, since the old one was specifically for backgrounds of that colour.

I will eventually do something about the cbox, but for now you guys can just deal with it. Post coming up soon, maybe tomorrow or later on. For now, I'm going to play.

ja ne~

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yume wo miteiru

Since the holidays is coming to an end, with only a few days left, and those days being taken up by drama practice, I thought I would spend my last few days doing something worthwhile. Although I suggested having at least one more outing, it seems everyone is too busy getting back into school mode, and with me and Zong and Danyal out of commision for the most part, due to drama practice, I guess it's impossible.

So today, I came back from drama and played a game of fail-DotA with Zong, Danyal and David, which ended promptly when half of us DC'd. So I was bored and went to read up on some trolling in Gamefaqs and read the 'Best of 2008' articles by Gamespot. Thankfully, Valkyria Chronicles actually won something, though I thought it would win at least Most Innovative. But some game called Braid got it, and various other awards too. I'm surprised it didn't even make it into the finals, I guess it wins most underrated game of 2008. I was listening to the Kanon OST after that and was listening to 'Shoujo no Ori' which is, in all technicality, Mai's theme, and translates into 'The Girls' Cage".

The song alone made me have that 'Ungh.. sad anime...' feeling so I decided to watch Mai's arc, starting from the 'swordplay' exhibition in the ballroom, until the end of it, and not surprisingly I almost cried again. I know most of you probably can't imagine me with a sobbing face, but I probably look weird.

So I decided, in these last few moments of my holiday, I would re-watch all the anime in my folder. This means, The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, Kanon, Lucky Star and CLANNAD. Sadly I don't have AIR in my folder, but I'll get it eventually.

So, like, don't bother me unless you get at least a 2v2 for a DotA game, or you want to play a pub. Otherwise, I'll either be on my PSP playing Dissidia, watching one of above-mentioned animes, or preparing myself for School.

Also, Harukyon ftw.
'I think ponytails are cute.'
じゃね。

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Suzumiya Haruhi

Merry Christmas everyone!

All hail Suzumiya Haruhi, for she is Goddess and Tanigawa Nagaru is her prophet.

I've recently delved deeper into Haruhiism, and done research. In the last 2 hours, I've found the things that have made this day the best Christmas in my life so far. To say what I've found, well, Suzumiya Haruhi no Yakusoku, which directly translates into 'The Promise of Suzumiya Haruhi', which is a visual novel for the PSP based on the Suzumiya Haruhi anime franchise. Next up, would be probably the best thing so far, all 9 chapters of the Suzumiya Haruhi light novel, translated into english! So in school next year, you'll probably see me going around with sheets of paper stapled together, and reading for most of my spare time. Next, I found a translation project for above mentioned Suzumiya Haruhi no Yakusoku. Although it's going slowly, it's still going on, which is extremely good, for me anyway. And finally, I've been enlightened in the ways of Haruhiism.

Right now I'm torrenting a shitload of stuff, and seeding stuff I recently finished. First would be the torrent for Suzumiya Haruhi no Yakusoku, which I sure as hell am not going to pass up. Second would be Dissidia: Final Fantasy, which, although in Japanese, should be fun anyway. And lastly is Fate/Stay Night's visual novel, which I already have the english patch for.

What I've already finished would be Planetarian, the visual novel by KEY which isn't their normal romance, but rather is a science fiction, which is why I originally didn't bother about it, but now that I'm almost finishing my current visual novel, I decided I'd get a few more just in case I'm still into the whole VN scene.

As for the Visual Novel I'm playing now, it's called ONE ~To the Radiant Season~, which is a visual novel made in 1998 by Tactics, which is KEY, who made CLANNAD, Kanon, AIR and the like, way back before they formed KEY itself. Surprisingly, despite what I'd seen in screenshots, the art and music and stuff are actually good, and the characters are interesting, albeit somewhat generic. Also, a lot of the girls use 'Uguuu' so now I know that Ayu wasn't the first to use it.

Hm..
Hope you all have a 'ma-ri ku-ri-su-ma-su'
Visit this site for some enlightment on other, non-Haruhi related stuff

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Bored, I guess

I feel an obligation to keep my blog alive for the sole purpose of competing with Bristan's blog, and to give everybody else something to read as they do their own stuff (Play DotA, paint plastic models, read books or whatever the hell Thomas and Dornel do).

So as most of you know (The stupid people probably don't), I just got back from my vacation, which was a 4 day 3 night stay in Batam at HARRIS hotel resort thing. It was fun I guess, for the most part you guys have seen my intense (and uneven) sunburn and Zong has some kind of remnants of skin flaking in his house, but probably not since I was wearing clothes.

Annnyyywayyy, while I have nothing to give you all from Batam (Seriously, there wasn't anything. The most high-tech thing I saw there, not counting PC and laptops, was a PSP. There were fake Gameboys and DS and PSP too, probably the guys there are being cheated by some supplier that likes to manipulate people), and unless you guys wanted toilet pipes, you all shouldn't be complaining.

After I came back, I realised I had to go to Drama Practice 2 days later and got all pissed off (as usual), so when Thomas started 'baa-ing' to me on msn I blocked him immedietely and probably pissed him off. As usual. Next 2 days were spent stoning at home. On Sunday night I was sort of invited to go to Zong's pseudo-Gayzember, to which I agreed since I had played enough of ONE~TTRS~ for 2 days.

I only brought one pair of clothes since I wasn't expecting to sleepover with my sunburn but somehow I gave into temptation. Anyway we spent Monday playing World Tour at Zongs house, and I learned that Zong's singing is horrible, but then again, so is mine.

I can't wait to get World Tour, they have j-Pop songs that were fan-mapped, and there are songs like God Knows from the Suzumiya Haruhi soundtrack, and probably others like Lost my Music.

Oh my Haruhi, I can't wait. >_<

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This past week

A photo of my current collection

The good condition 'Mint in Box' straight-from-Japan figure

Well this past few days have been the best for most of the holiday, only topped by Gayfest in October and finding the CLANNAD translation patch/voice patch/visual novel game. So far, I've gone to my very first anime convention, taken a picture while being squeezed in between two girls (Oh my gosh, that was so exciting >_<), gotten a good high quality Haruhi Suzumiya model for a cheap $25, obtained 3 super-cute chibi Haruhi/Yuki/Mikuru figures for a total of $50, and obtained the Kanon visual novel with a teaser patch, and finally gotten a website that is doing the Kanon translation which looks almost done already.

Awesome.

じゃね～！

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Retro EOY '08

I still can't believe this happened

Yummy Naruto Cosplay

Moar Yummy Naruto cosplay

I wonder how Danyal feels right now....

Spoils of the war

Well, I'll start off this post by saying what I bought. A $50 set of chibi Haruhi, Yuki and Mikuru in bunny girl outfits with little extra accesories, a $25 model figure of Haruhi Suzumiya herself, which is of very high quality and came mint condition in the box, a $5 Tsukasa phone pouch, $9 worth of stickers that can stick to anything (which is the 3 stickers of Kyou, Fuuko and Nagisa), a $7 Konata sticker (the blue one), and a free D.N Angel DVD box.


We met up at City Hall MRT early in the morning, around 10:20 by the time we had all arrived at there. We took the MRT to the Expo place, and ate at Subway. After that, it was already 11:20, so we decided to quickly head off to the place. Even though we were about 30 minutes after the opening when we got there, there were still considerably few people there, compared to how many there were at the end of the event. There were lots of cosplays ranging from Lucky Star to Naruto, as you can see at the top part of the post.

First thing to do was start camwhoring while we still could, while everyone else got irritated with me gawking at all the anime stuff. Sadly there was nothing that had to do with CLANNAD or Lucky Star.

We took a lot of picutres with the cosplayers, especially the female ones which were better and fancier, maybe the frilly dresses made them look really good. We also noticed that cosplayers started coming in groups, that consisted of the same anime. Or.. at least, I did.

The first purchase I made was the Tsukasa pouch, for 2 for $5, and gave one to Randall (My old Junior friend), and then we started to walk around and take pictures of the various cosplayers, although my camera soon was running low on battery.

There were performances by people too, and most of them were songs, but some of them were dances and stuff like that, like group called 'Natsu' (?) that did an interesting dance, though I expected the music to burst out into a J-Pop song and them starting to go hyper and dancing.

Anyway, skipping stuff since most of the stuff is the same, we walked around more and more, and finally ended up at the Cosplay Competition at 4 when we sat down in the hall and watched the registered cosplayers do their thing on stage. They posed and stuff, some did skits and some had a small action thing.

Later on it reached the team cosplay competition, and that's when it really got awesome. A group of 47 Naruto cosplayers jumped on stage doing a skit that I can only presume has been rehearsed for weeks. At first they did each of the genin squads, and then they started to do a fight scene with Naruto and Sasuke obviously starting off. Sadly this is also where my camera died on me and my video cuts off there. Later on the other rivals and stuff came up too.

After that most of the team cosplays weren't as impressive, but they were definitely interesting. The one that I thought actually stood a chance against the Naruto team one was the two people that did that dance thing. But sadly I have no idea what anime that's from. Finally the team cosplay competition ended with a Hare Hare Yukai dance by a Haruhi group, but sadly only Yuki and Kyon cosplayers could dance properly, and in the end their dance didn't even follow the one that the seiyuu's danced at Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekisou, which would have been awesome.

Finally event came to close, I went home by MRT with Randall who left about 4 stops before I got off, and I walked home from there.

Mm, I'm really glad I went. My christmas present (the figures) are pretty awesome too, and them sitting on the desk make me super happy just looking at it. The $25 Haruhi figure is definitely the best, and is very detailed with almost no paint smudges, in fact, I think there's only one, but it's only seeable if you look very very closely.

On the other hand, the $50 set had some missing parts, but I made up for it with a G2 pen ink tube.

Well then, I'm tired and stuff so I guess I'll go play a game or smth.
Also; I got the Kanon and AIR games, HAPPY!

じゃね～！

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